Yea, there’s not nearly enough opportunity to get invested in her for it to really be a huge spoiler. I don’t understand the hype.

Why do you keep calling a fly-by-night plot device a “fan favorite?” She had all of 2 minutes of screentime in which she did nothing memorable except die.

Why the shit is Disney/Lucasfilm saving all these extras for a 3D re-release almost a year after the fact? I don’t usually pay much attention to extras anyhow, but it certainly cheapens the home video purchase when it first became available.

It’s been awhile since I’ve studied antitrust law, but as memory serves, an arrangement need not be a perfect means of achieving its legitimate purpose to survive scrutiny. Setting aside the natural human limitations in system design, there are also often competing goals in economic arrangements that mean no single…

This is faaar from my area of expertise, but the short answer would appear to be “no.” The Supreme Court has explicitly carved out an antitrust exemption for collectively bargained arrangements between employers and unions under certain circumstances, and extended the application of this exception to professional…

No they won’t. They nuked the filibuster for non-SCOTUS appointments already; they’ll just do it for SCOTUS if that’s necessary.

Those would seem to be the obvious choices, I guess.

The amateur drafts are agreed to by the unions under each League’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, subject to federal labor law. Antitrust law is (generally) displaced is such a situation.

Amateur players both inside and outside the U.S. are not part of the players’ union, and so the union has no compelling reason to consider their wants and needs while negotiating with the league. Players’ unions across professional sports, meanwhile, have never hesitated to stick a shiv in amateur players in order to…

There is nothing unfair about interpreting his words to mean what they say. 

Well, the narrative that I think Rebels and the comics are trying to build is that Vader was, in fact, 100% evil—he was so consumed with anger and loss that all light within him had been extinguished. Until he discovered that he had a son, which reignited a flicker of the good that had once been in him.

But I think the rest of us are entitled to take his words at face value.

I thought it was fairly obvious that Ben was basically lashing out for some kind of finality, similar to Anakin’s attempt to kill Obi-Wan in RoTS.

I dunno, I was figuring I might just use my common sense to assign the obvious intent of his words as their meaning, but I guess I forgot to turn off my critical thinking module since this is a Republican we’re discussing.

This is like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The import of McCain’s words are obvious

If we want to be literal, as you seem to, it’s actually you and Scocca who are ignoring his words—“would” is a conditional verb that means that he actually is discussing the real world consequences of a Clinton Presidency, rather than hypotheticals—but that’s neither here nor there, since words usually aren’t literal.…

I’m not ignoring them; I’m reading them in their stupidly obvious context since Scocca is too willfully ignorant to do so.

My understanding is that it’s their duty and their job to at least have a hearing to confirm or deny the appointment

The filibuster was already nuked for lower courts. It was never going to survive a SCOTUS nomination anyway.

Again, let me come back to my original question—if Clinton nominates Brett Kavanaugh, will the GOP continue this line of opposition? If the answer is “no,” then your argument can’t be that they will oppose any nominee (which is still within their Constitutional prerogative, but whatever), but is that they will oppose…